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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 9
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
viii, 483 pages ; 24 cm
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When she returns to her home in Mississippi after finishing law school, Cassie Logan becomes involved in voter registration drives and other aspects of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
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Holiday House
Pub. Date
2024.
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194 pages ; 22 cm
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"Narrated by twelve-year-old Cato, this...story of racial unrest in prewar North Carolina ends with a dramatic match between white and Black little league teams. 1935. Twelve-year-old Cato wants nothing more than to play baseball, perfect his pitch, and meet Mr. Satchel Paige––the best pitcher in Negro League baseball. But when he and his teammates 'trespass' on their town's whites-only baseball field for a practice, the resulting racial...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 22 cm
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"When Rowan finds a skeleton on her family's property, investigating the brutal, century-old murder leads to painful discoveries about the past. Alternating chapters tell the story of William, another teen grappling with the racial firestorm leading up to the 1921 Tulsa race riot, providing some clues to the mystery"--
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"That book. It was about two womenm and they fell in love with each other." And then Lily asked the question that had taken root in her, that was even now unfurling its leaves and demanding to be shown the sun: "have you ever heard of such a thing?" Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called...
7) That flag
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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Bianca is Keira's best friend. At school, they are inseparable. But Keira questions their friendship when she learns more about the meaning of the Confederate flag hanging from Bianca's front porch. Will the two friends be able to overlook their distinctunderstandings of the flag? Or will they reckon with the flag's effect on yesterday and today? In That Flag, Tameka Fryer Brown and Nikkolas Smith graciously tackle the issues of racism, the value...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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"For the life of him, William "Scoob" Lamar can't seem to stay out of trouble--and now the run-ins at school have led to lockdown at home. So when G'ma, Scoob's favorite person on Earth, asks him to go on an impromptu road trip, he's in the RV faster than he can say FREEDOM. With G'ma's old maps and a strange pamphlet called the 'Travelers' Green Book' at their side, the pair takes off on a journey down G'ma's memory lane. But adventure quickly turns...
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Kalandraka
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
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En cierta pradera vivían un grupo de conejos blancos y un grupo de conejos negros que no se mesclan los unos con los otros. Pero un día una conejita llamada Marcela duda de su estilo de vida.
In a certain meadow lived a group of white rabbits and a group of black rabbits that did not mix with each other until one day a bunny named Marcela questions their way of life.
11) Dawn raid
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"Sophia is like most girls in 1976 New Zealand. How is she going to earn enough money for those boots? Why does she have to give that speech at school? Who is she going to be friends with this year? It comes as a surprise to Sofia and her family when her big brother, Lenny, starst talking about protests, "overstayers," and injustices against Pacific Islanders by the government. Inspired by the Black Panthers in America, a group has formed called the...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
355 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
Description
In a predominately white California beach town, the only two black seventh-graders, Alberta and Edie, find hidden journals that uncover family secrets and speak to race relations in the past.
13) The talk
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Description
As a little boy grows into a bigger boy, he first must have the difficult conversation Black families have with their sons, warning them about the challenges they face due to racism.
14) El odio que das
Author
Publisher
Grantraves�ia
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
483 pages : illustration ; 20 cm
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Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters...
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 22 cm
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When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. Told through Rashad and Quinn's alternating viewpoints.
16) The black kids
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With the Rodney King riots closing in on high school senior Ashley and her family, the privileged bubble she has enjoyed, protecting her from the difficult realities most black people face, begins to crumble.
17) The hate u give
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After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.
18) Chocolate me!
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The boy is teased for looking different than the other kids. His skin is darker, his hair curlier. He tells his mother he wishes he could be more like everyone else. And she helps him to see how beautiful he really, truly is. For years before they both achieved acclaim in their respective professions, good friends Taye Diggs and Shane W. Evans wanted to collaborate on Chocolate Me!, a book based on experiences of being African American, feeling different...
19) Beauty woke
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Publisher
Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
32 pages
Description
Beauty, who is of Taino Indian, African, and Boricua heritage, was taught to be strong and proud, but hatred toward people who look like her bruises her heart until her community opens her eyes to the truth.
20) Devils within
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"Enrolled in a new school under a false name, so no one from The Fort can find him, he struggles to forge a new life, trying to learn how to navigate a world where people of different races interact without enmity. But he can't stop awful thoughts from popping into his head, or help the way he shivers with a desire to commit violence. He wants to be different--he just doesn't know where to start..."--Amazon.com.
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